How a Droplet is Made – the Journey From UI to Bare Metal

What happens when you create a DigitalOcean Droplet? From our external interfaces, through our product stack, into the datacenter, and eventually down to the bare metal, learn what happens when we take an API request to creating a Droplet you can reach via ssh. See what it's like to operate infrastructure at scale.

Agenda
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Initiating a Create
2:23 Ingress
3:09 Edge gateway
4:09 Product services
6:35 Infrastructure services: Harpoon / Orca
10:13 Infrastructure services: hyperkraken / hvd
12:01 VM creation: image management
14:11 VM creation: image customization
14:48 VM creation: metadata
15:58 VM creation: libvirt
16:58 VM creation: octopus
18:09 VM creation: network connectivity
20:07 VM creation: MPLS
25:20 Tying up loose ends

About the Presenter
Neal Shrader is a Staff Engineer and Network Software Architect at DigitalOcean. He has been with the company since its formation in 2011, and has helped support its growth from a few folks in Brooklyn to a 500+ distributed global company. Primarily focused on the network, he’s brought numerous initiatives to release such as VPC, Cloud Firewall, and Floating IP. He’s also an avid runner, and a father to a seven-year-old son, Lucas.

This Talk Is Designed For
Anyone interested in microservices, networking, systems, and navigating a rapidly growing technological stack

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[WilliamDye-willdye]

We run life-critical calculations, so it's important to know as much as we can about the entire tech stack. Thanks much for the transparency about what's going on under the hood.

[RohintonKazak]

Interesting to see the real work that goes into providing the droplet.

[kenerik]

Thinking about how long that ARP table list must be. How do you wash those tables list, as a droplets goes up and down?